What the Heck was I Thinking!?

Thanks to Dr. Sanity, I’ve found an article posted at the Independent Online Edition by Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk: A dictator created then destroyed by America
Published: 30 December 2006

Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murdered untold hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis while spraying chemical weapons over his enemies? Our masters will tell us in a few hours that it is a “great day” for Iraqis and will hope that the Muslim world will forget that his death sentence was signed - by the Iraqi “government”, but on behalf of the Americans - on the very eve of the Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, the moment of greatest forgiveness in the Arab world.

But history will record that the Arabs and other Muslims and, indeed, many millions in the West, will ask another question this weekend, a question that will not be posed in other Western newspapers because it is not the narrative laid down for us by our presidents and prime ministers - what about the other guilty men?

No, Tony Blair is not Saddam. We don’t gas our enemies. George W Bush is not Saddam. He didn’t invade Iran or Kuwait. He only invaded Iraq. But hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead - and thousands of Western troops are dead - because Messrs Bush and Blair and the Spanish Prime Minister and the Italian Prime Minister and the Australian Prime Minister went to war in 2003 on a potage of lies and mendacity and, given the weapons we used, with great brutality.

Tony Blair is NOT Saddam!? Neither is George Bush!? Don’t tell me the scales have fallen off Fisk’s eyes… No, wait. Bush did invade Iraq for no good reason. That must mean that all those deaths of Iraqis caused by Sunni and Shia terrorists are Bush’s and Blair’s faults. No need to cast responsibility for their deeds on the perpetrators.

In the aftermath of the international crimes against humanity of 2001
we have tortured, we have murdered, we have brutalised and killed the
innocent - we have even added our shame at Abu Ghraib to Saddam’s shame
at Abu Ghraib - and yet we are supposed to forget these terrible crimes
as we applaud the swinging corpse of the dictator we created.

This guy is so full of self-loathing and hatred for America and the West, it makes me wonder if he thinks we’d all be better off under sharia law.
Reading his article makes me shake my head in wonderment. This guy is truly deranged. He twists the truth, lies outright, and spews venom at everything Western and American. What a scumball!

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Michelle Malkin quotes one of the witnesses in her blog post: Michelle Malkin: Report: Saddam is dead

I have to admit he looked frightened…”he was shivering, he looked broken, frightened”…***

This is the first time that one of the tyrants of the Muslim world has been destroyed by a freely elected government of the country he tyrannized.

Has anyone noticed the difference between this trial and punishment and the Nuremberg trials after World War II? These trials were conducted by Iraqi government personnel. The execution was conducted by Iraqis. Even the Germans couldn’t have done that after the Allies’ defeated them.

This points so clearly to the one fact that rarely if ever gets written about - the US and the coalition were not at war with the Iraqi people. We have turned parts of the country over to their control at a very rapid rate.

The Iraqis have, on their part, taken up the responsibilities of running their own government (legislature, executive, judiciary, military, and police) at a pace far faster than the Germans or the Japanese did after World War II.

Doesn’t that strike you as not only surprising, but also encouraging? What do all these people who complain about US involvement in this effort think of our involvement in Germany and Japan after  World War II?

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